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by andrewallbright 1418 days ago
Not as a main gig, but I frequent an arcade bar very often. I've started light research into how I might put together an arcade cabinet running a unity app using a raspberry pi. I was looking into how to automagically start the app in full screen using Linux. Something that I think may be accomplished using systemctl? The idea is to have it be plug and play; arcade bar staff should just turn it off and back on for it to restore video game service.

Any tips are welcome and appreciated. If not, I'll do heavier research when I am ready to hack this idea into life.

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I would assume putting the app into the startup daemon should be enough? Should be easy to test either way!
My fear is if the unity app somehow loses focus, perhaps due to some annoying OS pop up. I'd love to learn more so I can be confident that it could run in production without too much concern.